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The rookie arrived at Lakers training camp with something to prove. His new teammates — veterans such as Magic Johnson and Michael Cooper — elbowed him around the basketball court. The rough treatment continued after practice. "We didn't speak to him," Johnson recalled. "We made him sit by himself for lunch and dinner." It was the early 1980s and Byron Scott had to earn his way onto a "Showtime" roster filled with future Hall of Famers. To make things worse, the team had acquired him to replace a beloved veteran, Norm Nixon. "Not a popular choice," Scott said. "Magic and Coop were taking shots at me to see what type of...

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The rookie arrived at Lakers training camp with something to prove.
His new teammates — veterans such as Magic Johnson and Michael Cooper — elbowed him around the basketball court. The rough treatment continued after practice.
"We didn't speak to...

Kevin Durant scored 42 points, including 21 in the fourth quarter, and the Oklahoma City Thunder secured the No. 2 playoff seed in the Western Conference, rallying from 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Detroit Pistons, 112-111, Wednesday night....

ATLANTA -- Dominique Wilkins hopes young fans take the time to learn about Lou Hudson.
Wilkins says they'll discover “Sweet Lou” was one of the best shooting guards in NBA history.
Hudson, the smooth-shooting Hawks star who averaged more than 20...

MINNEAPOLIS — Corey Brewer scored a career-high 51 points and Gorgui Dieng hit a short jumper with 4.6 seconds to play to give the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves a 112-110 victory over the Houston Rockets on Friday night.
Brewer also had six...

The Minnesota Timberwolves scoured the pro and college ranks for their next coach before coming back to the man who helped lead the search: Flip Saunders.
Saunders will return to coach the team he guided to the playoffs eight times, including the 2004...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This time, the Clippers played the kind of impressive defense against the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night that they failed to play Wednesday night against the Atlanta Hawks.
This time, the Clippers were a determined bunch in...

LAS VEGAS — Shabazz Muhammad rivaled any attraction along the Strip here two years ago.
Fans and college coaches followed him en masse from one gym to another during a summer club tournament, fawning over every shot and slick move made by the player...

Kevin Martin is leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder to rejoin former coach Rick Adelman with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
A person with knowledge of the deal said Martin agreed Tuesday to terms with the Timberwolves on a four-year deal worth as much as...

Minnesota Timberwolves rookie forward Shabazz Muhammad, the former Las Vegas prep star and UCLA standout, will be sent to Iowa of the NBA's Development League.
Flip Saunders, the team's president of basketball operations, believes the team's No. 1...

Watching from afar
Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, on his visibility after attending only his second game of the season when his team played the Atlanta Hawks in London: "Frankly speaking, there's a lot of criticism that I am not in Brooklyn....

Derrick Rose's comeback turned out to be a cameo, and the Chicago Bulls' worst nightmare became a reality again.
The Bulls' hopes about contending for a championship this season took a serious hit. Their long-term plans appear to be up in the air too.
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They're a decade removed from it all, but assistant Lakers coach Brian Shaw and former Kings star Chris Webber still debate. They bring up the contentious history between the Lakers and the Sacramento Kings -- meeting in the first round of the 2000 playoffs, 2

--The Times' Mark Heisler provides countless anecdotes on what made Phil Jackson fun to cover. --The Times' Mike Bresnahan highlights Kobe Bryant's belief that the Lakers can win a championship next season even with the same roster. --The Times' Andrea Chang e

At varying moments during the last two years of his playing career, Brian Shaw would hear Lakers assistant Frank Hamblen tell him, "You're going to be a coach someday." Eventually, Hamblen carried the compliment even further, instructing Shaw to join the Laker

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The headline says it all. Former Laker A.C. Green and I will be part of the judging panel overseeing the NBA/Sprite Los Angeles Amateur Dunk Contest at the Universal City Walk today at 4 p.m. The event is free, you can get directions here and it should be a be

Another month of NBA playoff basketball still awaits us. A possible prolonged lockout might follow suit. And everyone, particularly Laker fans, are going to drive themselves nuts should there be a busy off-season. In the wake of all of this, the Lakers are loo